[CPEO-MEF] Massachusetts Military Reservation (MA) turnaround

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Good neighbor policy in place at base

By Joe Burns
Upper Cape Codder (MA)
Thursday, September 28, 2006

About face. That's what Upper Cape towns and citizens have experienced 
in their relations with and impressions of Massachusetts Military 
Reservation.

"Over these two decades we've gone 180 degrees from really serious 
problems with no acceptance of responsibility to total acceptance and 
cooperation," says Falmouth selectwoman Virginia Valiela.

Valiela, who has been a Falmouth selectwoman for 20 years, was the 
town's commissioner of public works when groundwater contamination from 
the military base caused the closing of Falmouth's Ashumet well in 1979, 
and with it the loss of a million gallons of water a day.

"At that time we dealt with total denial on the part of the military for 
any responsibility. And we had little access to people to even discuss 
the situation," Valiela says.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www2.townonline.com/bourne/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=582139

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Lenny Siegel
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